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Colour Management GSoC projects

There is already much written about Google Summer of Code. I just want to point you to a bunch of cool colour management (CM) project ideas.

OpenICC lists some ideas, which are interesting for cross desktop CM, especially for start in bringing CM to toolkits. Interested students are basically free to select one toolkit, which fits them most.

The CMM’s for Oyranos idea shall ease access to the upcoming spectral imaging capabilities inside the ICC architecture and to use smart CMM’s like ArgyllCMS was demoed doing stand alone and within ColorSync. Smart CMMs allow to optimise colour conversions for a images and devices, which will show up in more lively photographs.

The OpenGTL/OpenCL meta backend for the Oyranos CMM framework will enable us to write CMM’s, which run on the GPU instead of the CPU. That would potentially bring a big speed improvement for deploying applications through a simple CMS API.

One student proposed to work on characterisation based ICC colour correction inside KWin, which will fly over any of the old style per single channel gamma calibration. If you like to get ride of each monitor showing you a different saturated red, green or blue desktop background, then go ahead and propose a similar project for one of your favorite compositing window managers to the openSUSE or OpenICC orgs.

And of course there are printing related CM project ideas. One for CM printing with Krita and one project for general CM print queue setup in KolorManager.